Interim Special Education CDC Teacher - Holston View

Minimum bachelor's degree required with valid Tennessee teaching license.  Appropriate endorsements include 144, 460, and 461. See below for more information.

This is an interim position starts March 3, 2025 and goes through May 23, 2025.

  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS                          

1. Bachelor’s degree.
2. Valid Tennessee teaching certificate at appropriate grade level.
3. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO     

Principal(s) or Director of Special Education

JOB GOAL                            

To provide an appropriate learning environment for special services students.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Works directly with students with disabilities.
2. Provides primary and/or supplementary individualized instruction in recommended academic areas.
3. Offers academics on a level commensurate with the ability of each student as prescribed by the multidisciplinary team of each student in his/her individualized educational program.
4. Provides remediation of, as well as compensation for, individual deficiencies as determined through individual evaluation.
5. Guides the special services student into classes and other activities in an effort to help him/her attain his/her full potential as a productive member of society.
6. Promotes the development of positive self-concept, self-discipline, and self-motivation.
7. Serves as a consultant to the classroom teacher in meeting the needs of special services students.
8. Serves as a diagnostician of learning problems of students at the local school level.
9. Coordinates multidisciplinary team meetings.
10. Cooperates with school and community personnel to provide an appropriate education for special services students.
11. Make home visits when the need arises as determined by the resource teacher and school principal.
12. Keeps the IEP of children receiving special education services accurate and up-to-date.
13. Performs such other duties as may reasonably be prescribed by the principal and/or student personnel supervisor.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 25 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

• Pushing and/or pulling
• Climbing
• Stooping and/or kneeling
• Reaching
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing

TEMPERAMENT (Personal Traits)

1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
2. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
3. Adaptability to dealing with students.
4. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS

1. Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty.
2. Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments.
3. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
4. Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately.
5. Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers.
6. Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
7. Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

WORK CONDITIONS

Normal working environment.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so assigned.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT 

Salary and work year to be established by the Board.

Salary : $49,863